But now, after being giftwrapped wildcard invitations to all eight of her previous grand slam singles events, Barty has finally earned her own way into her maiden major.

Barty climbed to a career-high No. 129 in the world after reaching the second round at Flushing Meadows last year, but has dropped to 186th in the standings.

Despite her undoubted potential, Tennis Australia awarded its US Open wildcard this year to Jarmila Gajdosova, leaving Barty to go to work in the Big Apple.

Successive sudden-death wins over Noppowan Lertcheewakarn, Caitlin Whoriskey and 26th seed Oudin, who made a dream run to the quarter-finals as a 17-year-old in 2009, booked Barty a ticket into the 128-strong draw.

Australia's Anastasia Rodionova has once again qualified for the US Open.Source: News Limited

Rodiovona will make her eighth consecutive Open appearance after beating Dutchwoman Richel Hogenkamp 6-4 6-3 in her final-round qualifying match.

The 32-year-old has achieved her best grand slam results at Flushing Meadows, making the third round in 2006 and 2009.

A NOTE ABOUT RELEVANT ADVERTISING: We collect information about the content (including ads) you use across this site and use it to make both advertising and content more relevant to you on our network and other sites.